Bartholomew Ryan joined the European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin as a visiting lecturer in July 2007. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Århus University, Denmark in 2006, and MA in European Philosophy at University College Dublin (2000-2002) and BA in Philosophy and Political Science at Trinity College Dublin (1995-1999). The title of his Ph.D. thesis was “Kierkegaard's Indirect Politics: A Dialogue with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno”. His main areas of interest/research include nomadic thought in philosophy and literature, nihilism in 19th and 20th c. philosophy, politics and art, and the conflict between culture, dialogue and existence.

In Jan-June 2005 and Jan-June 2007, he worked at the Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen, and he taught Dostoevsky and the roots of terrorism at the ISU 2007 and 2008 at ECLA. He will be teaching the ISU 2009 on Montaigne and the Making of the Modern Self. He has written articles and presented papers on Kierkegaard, Joyce, Deleuze, Ibsen, Benjamin, Lukács, Shelley, Byron, and Schmitt.

Classes Taught at ECLA:

Electives:

Journeys to Selfhood: Reading Søren Kierkegaard

Wandering through Modernity: Reading James Joyce's Ulysses

The Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer

“I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On”: Reading Samuel Beckett

AY Core Course:

Property (2009, 2008)

Art and Politics in Renaissance Florence (2009)

PY Reading Groups:

Spinoza's Ethics

Nietzsche's Human All-Too Human

Publications:

- "Zones of Exception: Kierkegaard and Carl Schmitt", Forthcoming 2009

- "The wakes and negations of Climacus and Dedalus: Kierkegaard and Joyce", Forthcoming 2009

- “Dialogue Against Itself, Chatter and Nomadic Thinking”, LCC Journal, March 2009

- "Kierkegaard and Nature. A Pagan's Critique." October 2008, Kierkegaardiana Series 2008

- “Seduction, Defiance and Despair: Lord Byron in the works of Kierkegaard”. (2008): Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources (ed. Jon Stewart)

- “Anxiety and the Desecration of Silence: Shelley in the works of Kierkegaard”. (2008): Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources (ed. Jon Stewart)

- “Dethroning the Worldly Worries: The Traveller of Christian Discourses” Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2007, de Gruyter, Berlin/New York, July 2007